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trichia decipiens (nl- Peervormig draadwatje )

Trichia decipiens (Pers.) T. Macbr. 1899

Description:

Plasmodium white, pink or orange. Stalk gradually merging into the sporotheca, plicate, brown, filled with spore-like bodies. Sporotheca obovate or pyriform, ochraceous, very shiny. Peridium yellow or ochraceous-yellow by TL, smooth, pleated towards the stalk, dehiscing at the apex and remaining as a basal cup. Elaters usually unbranched, ochraceous-yellow by TL, 4.5-5.5 µm diam. in the middle, gradually attenuate into the very long points (75-150 µm), with 4-5 smooth, rather thick spirals, without longitudinal striae. Spore-mass, including the capillitium, ochraceous or ochraceous-brown. Spores pale yellow, 10-13 µm diam., decorated with short irregular ridges and a broken small-meshed reticulum of bands up to 1 µm high, showing as a border in optical section ( http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?searc... )

Habitat:

dead organic material (dead wood),cosm. ------HABITAT: On dead wood. DISTRIBUTION: Cosmopolitan ( http://hiddenforest.co.nz/slime/family/t... )

Notes:

( http://www.nederlandsesoorten.nl/nsr/con... ),( http://www.mycobank.org/MycoTaxo.aspx?Li... )

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AlexKonig
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AlexKonig

Heerlen, Limburg, Netherlands

Spotted on Jan 14, 2012
Submitted on Feb 26, 2012

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